This
is expensive, of course. But even more problematic, it’s likely that the
classes would be held prior to the implementation, and then people would forget
much of what they learned by the time the implementation occurred

keep a number of volunteers across the
organization well trained, then provide asynchronous training and performance
support tools for the new system and allow these local volunteers to support
people at their site.

"Are you spending the bulk of your employee training resources building courses? If so, it's time to rethink your strategy. In this new Perspectives report from Guild Research, author Patti Shank examines informal workplace learning. How can you support it? How can you measure it? One thing's for sure: Your company needs it.
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The current programme of information and communications technology (ICT) study in England's schools will be scrapped from September, the education secretary has announced. It will be replaced by an "open source" curriculum in computer science and programming designed with the help of universities and industry.

Everything you really want to know about contemporary mobile and informal learning includes backchannels from various conferences huge variry of links incredibly thorough archive and curation. Plenty on social media best practice here too.

On the 19 April, in London CETIS are holding a meeting in London on Repositories and the Open Web. The theme of the meeting is how repositories and social sharing / web 2.0 web sites compare as hosts for learning materials: how well does each facilitate the tasks of resource discovery and resource management; what approaches to resource description do the different approaches take; and are there any lessons that users of one approach can draw from the other?